About Curvd Aire || Other musicians we LOVE to work with || Selected Performance History | Sample recordings
About Curvd Aire || Other musicians we LOVE to work with || Selected Performance History | Sample recordings
Upcoming Performances:
January, 2009 Music at Noon Westminster Presbyterian Church 13th and N Streets Downtown Sacramento |
Curvd Aire returns to Westminster Presbyterian Church for its free Music at Noon concert series. This year, we feature percussionist Jim Nakayama in a concert of music for brass and percussion, including serious and modern music along with music in the jazz vein. Music by Didkowsky, Gillespie, Brubeck, Cobham and others will be featured in this concert of "something completely different". |
May 17th, 2008 Wine and Song at the Old Sugarmill Clarksburg, CA |
Members of Curvd Aire perform music in a lighter vein, as part of a wine-tasting and auction at the Old Sugarmill. Guest musicians include trumpeter Victor Pietrzak. There will also be a performance by the Camellia Symphony and other chamber music groups. |
April 12, 2008 "If Music Be the Soul of Love" |
Members of Curvd Aire perform with the Camellia Symphony Orchestra in a full concert of music written for and about the plays of Shakespeare. Tchakovsky - Fantasy Overture to Romeo and Juliet |
December 9, 2007 Holiday Twilight Concert
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Curvd Aire and Camerata California join forces in this exciting holiday event. Celebrate the Christmas season with a delightful blend of choir, organ and brass.
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November 10, 2007 Russian Soul! Memorial Auditorium |
Members of Curvd Aire perform with the Camellia Symphony Orchestra in a full concert of Russian Masterworks. Included in this program:
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September 9, 2007
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The Camellia Symphony joins forces with Rosemont High School to present a stirring collection of music about America, Americans, Heroes and Superheroes. Experience the sound of a 100+ member orchestra! Proceeds from this concert will go to the Rosemont High School Music Boosters and the Camellia Symphony to pay for rehearsal space. The program will include: |
Lifting the Veil
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"Lifting the Veil" is an annual concert of music by women, presented by Curvd Aire in partnership with California State University and many area musicians. For more information, click above or on the Logo (left) |
April 14, 2007 - Opera, Opera, Opera! with the Camellia Symphony Orchestra
April 4 - Music at Noon at Westminster Presbyterian Church, featuring Soprano Ava DeLara
January 27, 2007 - Urban Landscapes, with the Camellia Symphony
December 17, 2006 - Chamber Music at the Crocker Art Museum featuring Soprano Ava DeLara
November 17th, 2006 - Davis Unitarian Church,27074 Patwin Road, Davis, California 95616
September 28, 2006 - Art Dedication Ceremony - Florin Road Station - 4:00 pm
April 8th, 2006 - Memorial Auditorium - Camellia Symphony: "BRAHMS!"
A full evenings of masterworks by Johannes Brahms, the most beloved composer of the symphonic world. Featured aare the DOuble Concerto for Violin and Cello and the great German Requiem!
February 4th, 2006 - Memorial Auditorium - Camellia Symphony: Classical Meets Jazz
Slaughter on 5th Avenue, by Richard Rodgers, Albion Song, composed and performed by Maestro Allan Pollack, Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, by Leonard Bernstein
November 6th, 2005,
4:00 pm - Roseville Presbyterian Church
A concert of French Music, Featuring the Fair Oaks Woodwind Quintet. Selections including Bozza: Suite Française, Faure: Pavane, Ibert: Trois Pieces Breve, Offenbach: Can-Can, and Arrieu: Quintet in C; Dixtour
November 5, 2005 - Camellia Symphony:
Galleria!
The Camellia Symphony begins its 43rd season with selections relating to the vital and vibrant arts scene in Sacramento. Local galleries will display their works at the concert, as part of the "Second Saturday" events. Selections included: Pictures at an Exhibition, by Modest Mussorgsky, The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave), by Felix Mendelssohn, Trittico Boticelliano, by Ottorino Respighi,and Concerto for Flute and Orchestra, by Jacques Ibert, featuring flutist Alice Lenaghan, with a prestigious artist drawing his impressions of the piece.
September 30 and October 2 - "Strike Up the Band", with the Capitol Chamber Players
The Curvd Aire Brass Quintet with the Capital Chamber Players, and saxophone soloist Keith Bohm, professor at CSU Sacramento, in a concert of widely varied music: * Five Miniatures for Ten Winds - William McCauley;
Concerto da Camera for Alto Sax and Brass Quintet - Fisher Tull;
Selections from Peer Gynt Suites - Edward Grieg;
Suite Francaise for Brass Quintet - Eugene Bozza ; Kleine Kammermusik, by Paul Hindemith
September 2, 2005 -
Camellia Symphony
at the State Fair
"Tales and Festivities" - Paul Simmons, Guest Conductor
Fanfare for the Common Man, Fanfare from La Peri, Peer Gynt Suite, Music from Carmen and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone,
Faure's Fantasie, Hoedown, America the Beautiful
July 20, 2005 -
Fairytale Town,
Sacramento Zoo
Fairytales and other Stories: Camellia Symphony at the Zoo
June 5, 2005 - Special Concert:
Sacramento Japanese United Mothodist Church, Franklin Boulevard
Featuring Violinist Xiao Yu
May 6, 2005 - Lifting the Veil IV
A concert to benefit WEAVE (Women Escaping a Violent Environment)
With the Fair Oaks Woodwind Quintet, the Millington Strings, the Liberace Woodwind Quintet, flutist Alice Lenaghan, a trumpet septet, and other great area musicians. This year's Concert will feature the works of Lynn Job, Adrienne Albert, Victoria Jordanova, Claude Arrieu (pen name for Anne Marie Simon), and others.
Program
April 23 - Camellia Symphony Orchestra Concert - "Music America "
Adams - Short Ride in a Fast Machine |
Copland - Billy the Kid |
O'Connor - Strings and Threads
Gershwin - Porgy and Bess (with opera singers)
December 7, 2004, 7:00 PM - Special Library Event -Martin Luther King, Jr Library Sacramento California - patriotic and secular Christmas music and
some of its favorite classical and modern tours de force.
November 11, 2004
CSU Sacramento Recital Hall
Festival of New American Music - Music of Martin O'Leary and Emma Lou Diemer
June 16, 2004 - Westminster Presbyterian Church - Music at Noon Series, featuring
music by Gwyneth Walker, Lynn
Job, William Mathias
Mary Lou Newmark, Jacques
Offenbach, and John Williams
May 15, 2004 -Members of Curvd Aire play with the Camellia
Symphony Orchestra - Westminster Presbyterian Church - Prokofiev and Mendelssohn
April 22, 2004 - Lifting the Veil III - Works of Women Composers, and
featuring composer Gwyneth Walker
and the works of Mary Lou Newmark,
Victoria Jordanova,
Lynn Job, and Pamela
Marshall
February 7, 2004 - Members of Curvd Aire play with the Camellia
Symphony Orchestra - Memorial Auditorium - Corigliano & Saint Saens
January 18, 2004 - CSU Sacramento - Premiere of new works by Marion O'Leary
November 24, 2003 - Freeborn Hall, UC Davis Campus - Guest Artists with the
UC Davis Wind Ensemble
May 17th - CSUS French Horn Seminars
- Master Class on organizing, rehearsing, and maintaining a chamber group.
April 13, 1:00 pm - Sacramento Japanese United Methodist Church, 6929 Franklin
Blvd. (916) 421-1017
April 11th, 7:30 pm - Lifting the Veil II:
California State University, Sacramento, 6001 J Street, Sacramento, CA
March 30, 3:00 pm - Crocker
Art Museum, 216 O Street, Sacramento, CA
May 11th, 2002- "Lifting the Veil" -
BENEFIT CONCERT for education programs for women in Afghanistan
Click here
for information about some of the women who contributed their music and efforts
to the festival
December 7th, 2001- Holiday Festival with the Fair Oaks Woodwind Quintet and the CSUS Horn Ensemble
February 17, 2001- Valentine's Concert
- With the Millington Strings, Shell Xiao You, and Tatiana
Scott
April 21, 2001- Spring Concert - Children's
music and more - Program - with Claudia
Kitka, Soprano, and the Horizon Woodwind Quintet
Other Performances of Note:
Old First Concerts
